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Acceptance 's story about the band that called it quits before they realized made the band a legend. In 2014, Jesusfreakhideout posted their top " One Album Wonders ," and Acceptance's Phantoms topped the list. According to lead singer Jason Vena , when he sat down with  Billy Power   on Urban Achiever Podcast  in 2015, the lead singer recounted about how he had no idea the cult status the band then had in the scene. In various other interviews, Vena talked about how other bands, namely A Loss for Words and All Time Low inspired him to consider an Acceptance reunion.  LAST SEASON OF THIS MASQUERADE. In 2005, Acceptance after their failed attempt at major label stardom, Vena took a job in Seattle outside of music. The band dissolved, some forming side projects with other musicians. Lead guitarist Christian McAlhaney talked with Josh Coats on Your PUSH Coach Podcast in 2020, talking about what made him successful in three bands and other projects. These projects

Three and a half years after releasing Waking Up , OneRepublic returned with their third album, Native . The opening track, today's song, " Counting Stars " picks up where Waking Up left off--rhythmic pop-rock--but adds more elements of gospel otherwise absent on the first two OneRepublic records. The album quickly veers into electronic and anthemic '10s pop, but continues to make some interesting twists and turns along its course to the end, on a bonus track even recording with Aaron Sprinkle . Native may not be the most interesting album of 2013, and may sound like the equivalent of white toast in the morning, but there's a reason why we sometimes like to have white toast, and dare I say, Iced Americano. TAKE THAT MONEY, WATCH IT BURN. It's interesting to watch Ryan Tedder and OneRepublic navigate the world of pop music for several reasons. The band is talented, mixing genres, albeit in a very subtle/commercially viable way. Tedder is a go-to songwriting a

  Sheryl Crow ’s eponymous second album was released in 1996. The singer-songwriter grew up in Missouri, was engaged to a Christian man, and was about to settle into a small-town life as an elementary school English teacher until she started recording commercial jingles in her friend’s recording studio. When the jingles proved to pay the bills much better than her main job, she decided to move to California and pursue her dream of making her own music. YOU LISTEN TO COLTRANE, DERAIL YOUR OWN TRAIN.  After paying her dues in the music business, in Crow’s case singing back-up for Michael Jackson for his Bad tour and recording backing vocals for Stevie Wonder , Don Henley , Jimmy Buffett , and others, Crow released her first record in 1994. Her first hit " All I Wanna Do " made Crow a star. The song tells the story about the singer meeting a not particularly attractive man named William at a dive bar on weekday afternoon as she’s going through an existential crisis. She think

Following up  E-MO-TION nearly four years later,  Dedicated sees Carly Rae Jepsen evolving as a singer and artist. The tracks on Dedicated are meant for dancing, perhaps even more than the singers two previous blockbuster albums, E-MO-TION and Kiss .  Maturing into often more sexual lyrics, Jepsen sings about adult topics in a mature way on  Dedicated. The album spawn five singles, including today's song " Too Much ," which Jepsen wrote about a girl at a party whose boyfriend criticized her for getting into dancing "too much."Jespsen writes "Too Much" as almost an anthem of pride, disclosing before she takes on a new boyfriend that she has an excessive streak and that if he should enter a relationship with her, he should know that. A FIRE IN RAINY SEASON. With Jepsen's song about full disclosure, "Too Much" leads the beginning of our Pride Playlist 2022, a playlist of 30 songs celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride month. The songs on this playlist

MUNA ’s third and self-titled album is due on June 24th. Their album gives their single from last September, “ Silk Chiffon ,” a home. The band has also released three other singles from the 11-track album. Yesterday, MUNA released a non-album track, a cover of Britney Spears ’ 1999 bubblegum ballad “ Sometimes ” for the Hulu original film Fire Island , also released yesterday. The film was written by and stars comedian Joel Kim Booster and co-stars the Saturday Night Live 's openly gay comedian Bowan Yang in a modern queer re-telling of Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice set in New York's legendary LGBTQ+ haven. BABY, ALL I NEED IS TIME.   “Sometimes” is Britney Spears’ second single from her debut record, ...baby one more time . Following her smash #1 hit “ …Baby One More Time ,” “Sometimes” takes a more laidback adult contemporary sound. Like many of the songs on Britney’s debut record, “Sometimes” was produced by Max Martin and written by another Swedish songwriter

In 1985, a German song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 . While the song was also recorded in English, the German version of Nena ’s “ 99 Luftballoons ” (“ 99 Red Balloons ”) was preferred by American radio stations, though the English version was preferred in the UK. The New German Wave, or Neue Deutsche Welle, band formed after lead singer Gabrielle Kerner, nicknamed Nena during family trips to Spain during her childhood, and her boyfriend, drummer Rolf Brendel , moved to West Berlin. Kerner and Brendel had played in a German English-language band. But under the moniker Nena, the band reached international fame. A FRIDAY FOR THE FUTURE / IT'S NOT TOO LATE.  T he band’s success was said to be marred by a hairy incident. While on tour in the UK, tabloids exposed Kerner for not shaving her armpits. At the time women in The UK and the US shaved their armpits, but women from continental Europe did not. Some fans say that exposure was the reason for Nina’s decline. In 1987, Nina, t

Harry's House ,  the third full length record from Harry Styles , was one of the most anticipated records of the year, and it dropped late last month. In an interview with Zane Lowe , Styles talked about how the writing process for his third record was a continuation from his writing process for Fine Line.   Styles' former record had been a surprising take on psychedelic pop akin to the '60s and '70s, and listeners and critics wondered what he would offer on his third record. It turns out that, so far, Harry's House holds a high  Meta-critic rating than either his self-titled debut or Fine Line with a score of 83%. LEAVE AMERICA, TWO KIDS FOLLOW HER.  The similarity between Fine Line and Harry's House ,  though, can't be pointed out from the lead single, " As It Was ," alone, though. Many critics have pointed out the similarity between "As It Was" and A-Ha 's " Take On Me "; often with the argument that Styles' "